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Automation upgrades reduce sortation system wiring and lower costs

Control Engineering

Engineers there worked with an automation vendor to improve their equipment, computing power and communication protocols to provide better insights and reduce potential automation bottlenecks. Business continues to boom in the intralogistics industry.

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Fusing biology with the bionic ear

E&T

Developed in the 1960s, it is the first ever bionic device created to restore a sensory organ and has now been fitted in over a million people. The research, which started in 2007, is based on an optogenetics method that emerged around the millennium and has been shown to work in rodents. That is thanks to the cochlear implant.